In a musical collaboration unlike anything seen at Lewis & Clark in recent decades, two choirs and the orchestra will together perform a concert including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem, in two concerts in April.

Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist, recent winner of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, reads her work.

Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist, recent winner of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, reads her work.

In a musical collaboration unlike anything seen at Lewis & Clark in recent decades, two choirs and the orchestra will together perform a concert including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem, in two concerts in April.

A group of communication students, working alongside Professor of Communication Peter Christenson, set out to explore trends in pop music from the past 50 years, and their findings have far-reaching implications in American cultural studies.

In a musical collaboration unlike anything seen at Lewis & Clark in recent decades, two choirs and the orchestra will together perform a concert including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem, in two concerts in April.

In a musical collaboration unlike anything seen at Lewis & Clark in recent decades, two choirs and the orchestra will together perform a concert including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem, in two concerts in April.

The Department of Theatre is proud to announce that we will be hosting theatre artists Okwui Okpokwasili as guest artists for our 2017-18 Residency Program. This two-week program invites a Guest Artist with significant standing in our field to come to campus to work with students on a new work of theatre.

Working with interviews from founding company members and archival performance footage, filmmaker and dance instructor at Lewis & Clark College, Eric Nordstrom explores how today’s dancers stand on the shoulders of decades of perform

On November 4, theatre students will join forces with Vanport Mosaic, an organization dedicated to preserving and honoring the legacy of Vanport, Oregon, in a staged reading of Cottonwood in the Flood. The play explores the effects of the catastrophic flood of 1948.

Two of just 37 poets selected from among 1,800 applicants, poets Corey Van Landingham BA ’08 and Nick Lantz BA ’03 are recipients of 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. One of Van Landingham’s poems was printed in the Jan. 16 issue of The New Yorker.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has named Dawn Odell, associate professor of art history, the recipient of a fellowship for her project, “Chinese Art in Early Modern Europe and America.” A former Fulbright Scholar, Odell specializes in Chinese and early modern European art.

The recipe for an award-winning documentary about Portland’s vibrant food truck scene? Take one experienced documentary film-making professor. Add two dozen students. Mix in 400 food trucks and carts. Stir consistently for 3 years. Serve at international film festival. Read the full story in the new issue of the Chronicle.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s German Chancellor Fellowship Programme is for university graduates from the United States, the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China with an interest in international issues and demonstrated leadership potential. The programme is targeted at accomplished young professionals who are likely to become decision-makers, thought leaders, and influential voices in their respective fields. Fellows will be recruited from a broad range of areas such as politics and public policy, law, media, business, the non-governmental sector, and the arts. The programme provides fellows the opportunity to spend one year in Germany, where they will network with other prospective leaders from abroad and explore new solutions to the global issues of our times. This prestigious programme builds on Germany’s established and growing reputation as a favored destination for problem-focused international dialogue and a meeting place for tomorrow’s international leaders.

When Sam Reiter B.A. ’15 appears on stage later this month in her original one-woman show, Baba Yaga, it’ll be the culmination of years of hard work, research, and growth. It will also be the start of a new artistic sojourn.

Lewis & Clark has 3 phenomenal choirs, and they will be having auditions during Add-Drop period. The auditions are painless, with nothing to prepare. Email Professor Kathy FitzGibbon at klf@lclark.edu to set up your audition. Choirs are 1-credit classes, and regardless of whether you have tons of experience or are brand-new to singing, we have a place for you!

Eric Stotik, the local Portland artist whose work currently resides in the gallery, spoke at Lewis & Clark on September 27. Stotik’s talk gave great insight into his influences, process, and unique aesthetic.

Galleries

The fantastic, miraculous and sensational features forming the popular legend of Saint Francis of Assisi inspire an upcoming exhibit at Lewis & Clark’s Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, which opens Sept. 6, 2007.

When international affairs major Leanne Fawkes takes the stage, she won’t be giving a speech or taking part in a debate. Fawkes is one of the four student choreographers behind the 2007 Student Dance Extravaganza, none of whom is a theater major.

A Fall '08 exhibit at Watzek Library examines 500 years of bookbinding history, from the era of vellum through contemporary handmade books, revealing some of the lesser-known items in the rare book holdings of Lewis & Clark College Special Collections

For the first time in 10 years, the Fir Acres Theatre will be filled with the melodies of a main stage musical. Opening Nov. 6, 2008, “Urinetown, the Musical,” is major collaboration between the theatre and music departments.

The work of 50 up-and-coming photographers from around the world will be on display at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art this spring. reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow, which opens January 22, 2009.